French retaliation at Bizerta killed over seven hundred Tunisians in three days

Evidence

In what looked a little like “overkill”, 7,000 French paras were dropped to reinforce the Bizerta base, planes from the aircraft carrier Arromanches hammered the attacking Tunisians, while three other French warships forced the harbour entrance. For three days the battle raged, at the end of which over 700 dead and 1,200 wounded were counted among the Tunisians, at the cost of twenty-four French dead and 100 wounded. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1443

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: France’s crushing victory at Bizerta destroyed its key Tunisian ally.; Bizerta cost about 700 Tunisian lives while French losses were minimal.; The crushing Bizerta riposte backfired and cost de Gaulle his only Arab ally — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1443

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